Monthly Archives: May 2014

Washington Post: Graduates with UAS skills are going to be in demand soon. Here’s why. Next year around this time, we may be talking about an explosion of interest by employers for recent college grads who know how to operate drones. That’s right – the same way that we currently hear about the IT skills [...]

Metro UK: Rhino-Saving UAS: How UAS Are Being Used for Wildlife Conservation Rhinos are on the absolute precipice,’ says Steve Roest, head of the ShadowView Foundation, an organisation that provides unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), or drones, for conservation and humanitarian relief operations. ‘In Africa, it’s about rhino and elephant. We’re getting requests from all over [...]

Advertising Age: Watch UAS Deliver Coke to Workers Building Singapore Skyscrapers A few weeks back, drones buzzed up to high-rises under construction in Singapore and dropped off cans of Coke to the migrant workers building the towers. Tucked into the care packages were 2,734 messages from Singaporeans thanking the tradesmen for their hard work. The [...]

NBC News: Deploying UAS for News Gathering in El Salvador At night on the western edge of this capital city, Borman Marmol looked like a middle-aged toy helicopter aficionado. He leaned against his parked car, oversize remote control in hand, eyes to the sky. A deadly accident had cars backed up 25 miles on this [...]

BBC News: Easyjet develops UAS to inspect aircraft Easyjet is developing drones to inspect its fleet of Airbus aircraft, and may introduce the flying maintenance robots as early as next year. The drones will be used to scan and assess Easyjet planes and report damage back to engineers. The flying robots are being developed [...]

Associated Press: For North Dakota, UAS a Possible Growth Market Forget the North Dakota energy boom. How about a drone boom? State and federal officials have big hopes for the growth of what are known as unmanned aircraft systems. And North Dakota has positioned itself well to take advantage of its unique attributes: [...]

Bloomberg: UAS Patrol Abe Lincoln’s Railroad in Vision for Future a Union Pacific Corp. (UNP), the railroad created with a stroke of Abraham Lincoln’s pen, is now tinkering with the next wave of transportation technology: drones. While Internet companies such as Amazon Inc. (AMZN) dream of aerial deliveries and Google Inc. studies high-altitude robot craft [...]

ABC Rural: UAS Detect Tasmanian Native Pastures from Space Unmanned aircraft are being used to gather intelligence on pastures, as well as by the military and paparazzi. The University of Tasmania’s Terra Luma project is using unmanned aircraft systems for environmental and agricultural remote sensing and aerial survey work. Bethany Melville is part of [...]

LA Times: FAA Under Pressure as Clamor for Small Commercial UAS Grows It seems like a perfect time to get into the drone business. With easy access to technology and patchy regulation, small commercial drones already have been used to film box-office hits and market expensive real estate. Internet retailer Amazon is testing [...]